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Mugambi Jouet
Mugambi Jouet is Assistant Professor at McGill University’s Faculty of Law and author of Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each Other.
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Jackson Davidow
Jackson Davidow is an art historian and writer. His work has appeared in American Art, Art in America, ASAP/J, and the book Otherwise: Imagining Queer Feminist Art Histories.
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Simon Torracinta
Simon Torracinta is senior editor at Dissent and a former contributing editor at Boston Review. His writing has also appeared in n+1 and The New Inquiry.
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Ellen Wayland-Smith
Ellen Wayland Smith is associate professor of writing at the University of Southern California. She is author of The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America and Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table.
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Colleen Murphy
Colleen Murphy is Roger and Stephany Joslin Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice and A Moral Theory of Political Reconciliation.
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Christopher Kempf
Christopher Kempf is the author of the poetry collections Late in the Empire of Men and, most recently, What Though the Field Be Lost, forthcoming from Louisiana State University Press in spring 2021. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, he holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.
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Ravi Gupta
Ravi Gupta, MD, is an internal medicine physician, fellow at the National Clinician Scholars Program, and associate fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Find him on Twitter @rgupta729.
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Nicola Miller
Nicola Miller is Professor of Latin American History at University College London. Her latest book is Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America.
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Nargol Aran
Nargol Aran writes from Tehran. Her writing can also be found on The Point.
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Andrew Jewett
Andrew Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War. He has taught at Harvard, Yale, NYU, Vanderbilt, and Boston College and held fellowships from the National Humanities Center, the Cornell Society for the Humanities, the National Academy of Education, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Opal Moore
Opal Moore, a native Chicagoan, is a veteran teacher of creative writing and African American women’s literature. She is the author of the poetry collection Lot’s Daughters. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in anthologies and journals, including the Notre Dame Review, Connecticut Review, Honey, Hush! An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor, and Homeplaces: Stories of the South by Women Writers. She currently serves on the board of The Art Section, an international journal of art and commentary edited by Atlanta-based artist Deanna Sirlin.
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Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano teaches at Simon Fraser University. His latest book is Late Fascism: Race, Capitalism, and the Politics of Crisis.
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Dee Payton
Dee Payton is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at Rutgers University. Her research focuses on questions about gender, social construction, and social ontology, and she has taught courses on the nature of racial and gender categories in the United States.
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Robin Dembroff
Robin Dembroff is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. Their writing has also appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and other venues.
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Naomi Extra
Naomi Extra is doctoral candidate in American Studies at Rutgers University-Newark. Her poetry manuscript Ratchet Supreme was selected by Tiana Clark as the winner of the 2019 BOAAT Chapbook Prize.
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Chiara Cordelli
Chiara Cordelli is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and author of The Privatized State.
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Rachel Thomas
Rachel Thomas is Founding Director of the Center for Applied Data Ethics at the University of San Francisco and cofounder of fast.ai. Find her on Twitter @math_rachel.
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Sam Lebovic
Sam Lebovic is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University and author of Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America.
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Jennifer Sutton
Jennifer Sutton is an independent scholar with a PhD in History from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Camilla Schofield
Camilla Schofield is Senior Lecturer in the School of History, University of East Anglia and author of Enoch Powell and the Making of Postcolonial Britain.
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Destiny O. Birdsong
Destiny O. Birdsong is a Louisiana-born poet, fiction writer, and essayist. She earned an MFA and PhD from Vanderbilt University.
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Nanjala Nyabola
Nanjala Nyabola is a writer and political analyst based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is the author of Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era is Transforming Politics in Kenya and Travelling While Black: Essays Inspired by a Life of Travel.
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